Fujitsu Lifebook concept shows crazy mobile convergence

Are you always looking for greater gadget convergence? Is the ASUS Padphone just not enough? Did you think Motorola’s Webtop environment only scratched the surface? Then you’ll love Fujitsu’s new concept device, dubbed the Fujitsu Lifebook. The keyboard of the Lifebook is actually an embedded tablet, which runs a full-sized touch-sensitive keypad when it’s docked with the Lifebook. Pop it out and you have a functional tablet.

But the fun doesn’t stop there. The camera on the cover of the Lifebook can pop out to slide into your pocket as a portable point-and-shoot device. And a specially made phone also docks in the Lifebook, sliding into a slot in the front of the device.

According to Fujitsu, docking the phone and/or tablet would not only let them share data, but unlike the Padphone, which powers the tablet with the phone insert, every device in the Lifebook would have its own internal CPU. Better yet, upon docking they would start to contribute CPU power to the Lifebook for greater distributive processing, or to run an app that is specific to the mobile devices.

What operating system would it run? What would charging the device be like? How much would this thing cost??? Good questions all, but as with any concept product there aren’t any answers yet. No word on if or when Fujitsu might really make a product like this, but for people who want a single convergence computing device, the future is looking up.

No, thank you. The worst thing about a tablet is having to use the touch keyboard. Hence why tablets like the Asus Transformer and Slider are so popular, as well as keyboard docks and even cases with keyboards built into them.
A truly innovative concept would be for a laptop to have a phone dock where the tracpad would normally be. Unfortunately, both of these ideas renders the laptop useless without the phone or tablet docked. But at least the idea that I brought up could potentially be fixed by using a separate mouse when the phone isn't docked.

I like that idea a lot... and if the manufacturer included a secondary mouse pad (or use plug 'n play USB mouse) then it wouldn't be useless without the phone
On the other hand, when would the user be interacting with the device without the phone?

if all of these devices could work together wired and wirelessly then that would make for a cool device/trio of devices. I would imagine using the laptop portion connected to an HDTV and using the tablet and phone as a keyboard and mouse while on the couch.

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